Bill > A07568

This bill requires the state librarian to provide comprehensive guidance to all school library systems within 12 months of the bill's enactment, focusing on the curation of library materials. The guidance will establish standards to ensure library collections are inclusive, diverse, and non-discriminatory, including requirements that materials represent a wide range of perspectives, cannot be removed based on the origin or views of their creators, and are protected from censorship. The guidance will also mandate that libraries provide students with age-appropriate and developmentally relevant materials and establish professional procedures for librarians to regularly review and potentially remove library materials based on specific criteria such as relevance, condition, duplicate availability, and current demand. Additionally, the state librarian will be required to maintain and publish a list of school library systems that have adopted policies meeting these minimum standards, which will be made available on the department's website, thereby creating a mechanism for tracking and encouraging compliance with the new curation guidelines.

Budget and Finance, Education

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A7568